Author Name: HERFORD, OLIVER.
Title: OVERHEARD IN A GARDEN.
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First edition
Publisher: New York: Charles Scribners & Sons, 1900.
Seller ID: 729
Oliver Herford famous for his verse, poetry and whimsical illustrations; The Elf and the Dormouse was one of his most noted poems. This book contains Herford's illustrated amusing poetry & verse: tales, gossip, scandal and quarrels in the garden; "Not in the Garden": Moonstruck; A calendar of seasons; A Decadent; Love & Time; A New Yorker; A Butterfly Girl; "A Little Chapter on Sport": Pig-sticking, The Fox Hunt, A Deer Hunt, Coursing; "Bubbles: A Plea; Toast and Water; Memories, etc; and "Curtain Calls" ( from his imagination; famous literary figures): Lady Macbeth, Godiva, The Wandering Jew, Cleopatra, Desdemona, etc.).
Color illustrated tan cloth boards. Front & rear hinges rubbed, lower rear hinge 1 inch erosion. Chips to spine ends. E.p. mild foxing faint evidence of pencil erasures. Front upper edge e.p. decorative sticker. Clean text & illustrations, binding tight. In protective mylar. Color frontispiece, illustrated in black & white throughout. 12 mo, 104 pages. First Edition.
Overheard in a Garden First Edition, illustrated children's verse, Oliver Herford first edition Verse, Garden, Animals, First Edition, 19th Century, Collectable Books
Price =
30.00 USD |
